Some of America’s best-known musicians have come from its least-known places. “I Never Loved a Man (The Way That I Love You)” by Aretha Franklin. “Land of...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Edited by Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid (Paulist, 2013) Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment is a collection of essays that is the product of a...
Various Artists (Nonesuch, 2013) The songwriter is dead. Long live the songwriter. The Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack comes from the 2013 film of the same name...
By Kerry Weber (Loyola, 2014) Kerry Weber has set the bar for Lenten fasts extraordinarily high in Mercy in the City. In her concise, quick moving, and often...
Looking for a new book? Here are some you may want to consider in your search: April 2014 Following St. Francis: John Paul II’s Call for Ecological...
Can you enjoy a song or movie without supporting the person who created it? Let your conscience be your guide. Last summer I found myself in a Twitter debate...
Directed by George Clooney (Columbia Pictures, 2014) They didn’t storm the beaches at Normandy or liberate Paris. But the real-life “Monuments Men”—a special...
By Stanley Hauerwas (Seabury Books, 2013) It’s a weird thing to review a book of sermons, let alone one written by a theologian known less for preaching...
Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings (Daptone Records, 2014) If what the people want is music with deep roots, honest emotions, and spiritual fire, then this album...
By Robert Calderisi (Yale University Press, 2013) At the end of Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church and World Development, economist and former World Bank...
